552 NOCTUID.T. 



below the cell chocolate-brown ; orbicular hardly traceable except 

 below where it is defined by a slight curved silvery streak, oblique 

 elliptical ; a large metallic golden stigma below the cell, its inner 

 extreniitv angled inwards on median ner\'ure and its lower extremity 

 produced to a rounded lobe to near the postmedial line ; reniform 

 faintly defined by red-brown, its inner edge straight, its outer 

 slightly indented at middle ; postmedial line indistinctly dovdjle, 

 red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, veiy slightly 

 waved and excurved below vein 2 ; an oblique chocolate-browu 

 shade from apex to below vein 5 ; subterminal line chocolate-brown, 

 excurved below costa and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; the 

 termen pinkish with a fine brown terminal line ; cilia with a fine 

 pale line at middle. Hind wing yellowish suffused with red-brown, 

 the terminal area red-brown ; cilia yellowish tinged Avith red- 

 brown. Underside yellow tinged with red ; fore wing with the 

 disk suffused with brown ; hind wing irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal striga, diffused postmedial line, and faint subterminal 

 shade. 



Ab. 1. Fore Aving with the stigma slightly produced at loAver 

 extremity. 



Hah. Bbitain, Leech Coll. ; Feakce, Sand Coll. ; Geema]ST, 

 Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Austria ; Hungaet ; Switzeelakd, Frey 

 and Leech Colls. ; Italy, Courmayeur (Hampson) ; Etmelia ; 

 ScAKDiis^ATiA ; KfssTA, Lccch Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., 

 Urals ; Ahmeinia ; W. TtiEKESTAN, Issyk-Kul ; W. SlBEBlA, 1 S , 

 Altai ; E. TuEKESTA^', Thian Shan. IJay. 40-50 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 157; Barrett, Lop. Brit. ti. p. Ill, pi. 241. 

 f. 3. 



Pale green ; dorsal and spiracular lines Avhite ; head marked Avith 

 broAvn. Food-plants, Et(])atorium and Urtica. 



8390. Phytometra metallica. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 4.) 



Fh(sia braclea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 72 (1874), nee 



Schiff. 

 Tlusia vtdallica, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 311 (1S75) ; 



Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Eiit. Soe. x. p. 63, pi. yii. f. 7 ; Siuitii, Cat. Noet. 



N. Am. p. 248. 

 Thisia sca/m/aris, H. Echv. Papilio, ii. p. 127 (1882); Smith, Cat. Koct. N. 



Aiu. p. 2.'')3. 

 T/ii.'^ia lenzii, French, Can. Ent. xxi. p. 161 (1889) ; Smith. Cat. Koct. N. 



Am. p. 253. 



Head and thorax red-broAvn mixed Avith some grey ; palpi, tegulre 

 at l)ase, and thoracic crest in front bright rufous ; pectus and legs 

 rufous ; abdomen yellowi-sh tinged Avith rufous, the crests rufous 

 tipped with grey. Fore Aving ]}urplish pink slightly striated Avith 

 broAvn, the medial area below the cell choculate-brown Avith some 

 bright i-ufous beyond and beloAV the stigma, the subterminal area 

 with a golden gloss except at inner margin, the veins beyond the 

 cell with slight dark streaks; antenaedial line represented by an 



